 | David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 960 pages
...existence by their respective and several grants and conventions of the people.'108 If Congress consented, then the States were in this respect restored to their...when given, left the States as they were before." Held in WBER Co. v. ET & GER Co.:109 The prohibition in the tenth section of the first article of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Migration, Internal - 1921 - 38 pages
...enter into treaties or compacts, with consent of Congress, see Rhode Island v. Massachusetts (!££• Pet., 657, 725-731). In the case just cited the Supreme...States to enter into a compact or agreement, " then the Sates were in this respect restored to their original inherent sovereignty ; such consent being the... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1990 - 540 pages
...existence by their respective and several grants in conventions of the people. If congress consented, then the states were in this respect restored to their...constitution, when given, left the states as they were before . . . whereby their compacts became of binding force, and finally settled the boundary between them:... | |
 | Caroline N. Broun, Michael L. Buenger - Law - 2006 - 540 pages
...existence by their respective and several grants in conventions of the people. If Congress consented, then the states were in this respect restored to their...constitution, when given, left the states as they were before * * * whereby their compacts became of binding force, and finally settled the boundary between them;... | |
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If congress consented, then the states were in this respect restored to their original inherent sovereignty; such consent being the sole limitation imposed by the constitution, when given, left the states as they were before . . . whereby their compacts... 